Product Designer (Hybrid)

Homebase•San Francisco, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

We're looking for a Product Designer with a strong eye for craft and a builder's mindset. You care about visual polish and interaction details — and you bring ideas, energy, and curiosity to the work, not just execution. You'll design experiences for our Hiring product that help owners trust AI-powered candidate matching, simplify job creation, and make the review process feel fast and confident — not like a guessing game. You'll partner closely with Product and Engineering to ship, iterate, and improve — supported by a Senior Design Manager and Senior Designers who are invested in helping you level up. You'll get real ownership early if you're ready for it. This is a hands-on role for someone who'd rather share rough work and get feedback than perfect it alone. You show up with multiple directions. You notice friction before someone points it out. You're proactive, scrappy, and hungry to grow. You're also already working with AI tools — not just open to them. Whether you've used Claude, Figma Make, v0, or something newer to explore ideas, speed up iteration, or build something of your own, you're comfortable making AI a part of how you design and think.

Requirements

2–3 years of product design experience with a portfolio showing strong visual and interaction craft
A clear eye for quality — typography, hierarchy, spacing, interaction polish — and work that shows it
Experience taking ambiguous problems through to shipped solutions
Proactive and independent — you drive your work forward without waiting to be pointed at it
Active use of AI tools in your design workflow — not "interested in," actually doing it
Can form and communicate clear design opinions, including on tradeoffs

Nice To Haves

Built something — a side project, experiment, or tool — that shows curiosity and initiative
Strong prototyping skills to bring interactions to life beyond static screens
Experience in 0→1 or early-stage product areas
Ability to think in systems — patterns, reuse, scalability — not just individual screens
Experience designing AI-powered or automation-driven experiences

Responsibilities

Explore multiple directions before converging, and bring that thinking to reviews clearly
Push your work to a high bar — sweating the details that make experiences feel polished, not just done
Partner with Product and Engineering to shape solutions and ship work that matches intent
Talk directly with customers, run quick tests, and use what you learn to adjust direction. Treat research as a velocity tool, not a gate.
Use AI tools to expand exploration, accelerate execution, and raise your own quality bar
Share work early and often — rough drafts, prototypes, not just finished screens